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On Sep 22, 2004, at 5:58 PM, Luke Mewburn wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 01:26:34PM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> | Wedges are a new way of representing disk partitions in the NetBSD
> | kernel.
> |
> | - Wedges are "named". That is, each wedge has an
> associated
> | name encoded in UTF-8. This name can be used to create a
> | device node in /dev to decouple the wedge's identity from
> | its probe-order-dependent unit number.
>
> To confirm a comment from a followup of yours;
> the named wedges would appear in /dev/dk instead of populating /dev.
Right, sorry. I intend for the named paths to be /dev/dk/... Sorry for
not being clear on that.
> newfs -F -s {size} ... doesn't work as a workaround for now ?
That will probably work, yes. Obviously I'd rather solve it for real,
though :-)
> This is good work,
Thanks! :-)
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
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